Who would have thought that drinking songs would go so well with ice skating?

[dreamshark]

mle292 posted a couple of days ago about this year's Marscon Mix CD challenge.

Here are your orders, should you choose to accept them: Make a Mix CD of music about DRINKING, in standard CD format and bring several copies to Marscon to share with other participants. In exchange, you will recieve copies of other people's chosen selection of drinking songs.

I'm not sure if I'm even going to Marscon, but this sounded like a great way to piddle away a weekend. So I sat down with my iTunes and started putting together a mix of songs on the subject of Drinking. OMG, did that ever turn out great! After the first pass I had 28 songs, which I loaded onto my iPod shuffle and listened to while I was skating, an amazingly successful combination. Drinking songs tend to be lively, whether they're rock'n'roll, bluegrass, show tunes, or opera. And yes, there's some of each on in this mix, although I must admit there's more country than any other single category (what can you do? the topic is DRINKING.)

I'm now trying to finalize the song order and then I'll see if I can figure out how to burn a CD from iTunes.

Assuming that I get that to work, I'll be happy to make copies for people, preferably in exchange for your own mix. barondave, you get one free, since you've given me so many mix CDs already.

Comments

Appoint a surrogate!

[mle292.livejournal.com]

I expect that Minicon will have a room party at Marscon, I am absolutely willing to trade off your CD with anyone you deem appropriate if you'd like.

[daedala.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds fun. What kind of mix would you like?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Just off the top of my head from my own playlist, I come up with "[You May Be My True Love But] Whiskey Was My First" by the Tim Malloys.

"The Jug of Punch" by Altan.

"Molly O'Malley's" by Peter Mayer. (About the musicians who play at an Irish pub.)

"Nottingham Ale" by The Flash Girls

"Dandelion Wine" by Blackmore's Night

"Too Much Butterbeer" by Stubby Boardman

[barondave.livejournal.com]

After the first pass I had 28 songs

Indeed. One of the hard parts of a mix tape is editing it down to just the songs that are great and/or the songs that flow. The two drinking mixes I made for the owner of the bar across the street, mentioned in mle292's original post, have some stretches, but worked out fine.

I'll take a free one! But you should come to Marscon anyway.